On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:37:44 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Brian Blais <bbl...@bryant.edu> writes: > >> On Jun 28, 2010, at 14:25 , Chris Rebert wrote: >> > __doc__ is normally defined on classes, e.g. `A`, not instances, e.g. >> > `a`. help() looks for __doc__ accordingly. >> >> so that gets back to my original question: can I change this text at >> runtime. Doesn't look like I can, because it is defined for classes >> rather than instances. Am I thinking about this correctly? > > Classes are objects. You can change the ‘__doc__’ attribute of a class > object the same as you'd change it for any other object:: > > A.__doc__ = "new docstring"
True, but what you can't do is: a = A() a.__doc__ = "new docstring" unless you jump through hoops with __getattribute__ or descriptors. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
